Male Nude Study
1778 · graphite and black chalk on blue laid paper
overall: 52.1 x 34.5 cm (20 1/2 x 13 9/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art
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Anton Raphael Mengs
1728–1779
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Anton Raphael Mengs was a German painter of the eighteenth century working primarily in fresco and oil on canvas. His practice encompassed religious commissions, portraiture, and large-scale decorative schemes across European courts and churches. Based in Ústí nad Labem, he executed ambitious mural cycles and formal court portraits that established him as a leading decorative painter of the Rococo and early Neoclassical periods.
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